The biggest batch of record-setting cold temperatures are likely to hit early Thursday and Friday, Orrison said. But North Dakota already felt more like the North Pole on Tuesday as Bismarck hit minus ...

Arctic cyclones may be accelerating sea ice loss by breaking ice into smaller pieces and driving upwelling of warm water. A study links these storms to rapid ice depletion and suggests that tropopause ...

Dangerously cold temperatures were descending into the U.S. as far south as Texas on Tuesday, breaking records in some areas.

The office of the Weather Service in Bismarck, N.D., described the conditions as “life threatening,” cautioning that wind ...

Some U.S. government scientists have been told they can no longer travel for meetings or even join virtual calls with ...

The polar vortex, a pattern in the Arctic region, is causing extreme cold weather in the US and Europe. Despite this, the world is warming, with January setting a monthly heat record. Climate change ...

Greepeace announced Monday the opening of a delegation in Portugal, which celebrated with the arrival of the 'Arctic Sunrise' ...

Understand how extreme cold events are changing due to climate change and what this means for our winters ahead.

Connecticut College botany professor Peter Siver has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to synthesize decades of research on protists—microscopic organisms essential to aquatic ...

A new publication co-authored by John Ziker (Department of Anthropology) and Karl Mertens (Ph.D. candidate in ecology, ...

Every state but Hawaii, California and Florida is likely to get a taste of wind chills of 20 degrees or colder.